Great impressions Lockdown, and surprise...  I pretty much agree with you on every point.

I'm loving the game.  I played 2 games last night, the first was 1 on 1 against my friend, then 2 on 2 with some other friends.

The 2 on 2 game was easily one of the best sports gaming experiences I've ever had.  My friend and I lost, even though at halftime we were up by 17 points...

Still, it was a great game and I forsee many late nights with this game.

Bravo Sega/VC.

And welcome to the CG forums!

I hope so too.  I'll by the NBA and NHL games this year, which will be a first for me.

3 more hours till I'm off...

You know what, you guys don't want to wait for me to come back to high speed internet on the 20th of August.  I'll drop from the league.

Good news is the Patriots are free for someone to dominate with  :twisted:

I for one would be fine with that.  I'll go with whatever the majority says though

The tournament starts on August 8th, so that would give us time to finish it before the league starts.  And, I think using the tournament as a preseason tournament of sorts is a good idea!

[MY EB JUST CALLED AND SAID THEY ARE GETTING THE GAME IN TONIGHT AT 8PM!!!!]

MY EB JUST CALLED AND SAID THEY ARE GETTING THE GAME  IN TONIGHT AT 8PM!!!!      

They are sending someone to pick it up special from Miliwaukee...

Ah, lucky dog Hetz!  So, I expect you'll play 2 or 3 games then come here and post right?  Please?!

I'm serious about it

Can I have the Colts then?

Well of course!

EA was the ignorant one not allowing their games to be on Live!.  First EA game on Live! and BAM, 100% increase in sales.

http://news.teamxbox.com/xbox/6324/NCAA-Football-2005-Sales-Up-100-Over-Last-Year

Ralph, is that ok with you?  If so, you grab another team

Loren, I don't know when we should start it.  I kind of think we should wait till after the tournament.  Then the tournament can kind of be a pre-season tournament of sorts.  I'm open to whatever though.

Geez...you guys start up a league while I'm out of town and my team is gone...d'oh!

Ah, that does suck Loren.  I also thought you jjust weren't interested in the league.

Grab another team though

K, Eagles down for Devil.  He is on vacation afterall, so it's only fair.

I think we might should start the league after the tournament as well.  What do you all think?

[9.5]

Teamxbox reviewed it!

http://reviews.teamxbox.com/xbox/766/ESPN-NFL-2005/p1

9.5


In regards to Ziff Davis' sold out EGM's review.

ESPN NFL 2K5 has the best graphics that I have witnessed in a sports game to date.

Sounds like the EGM guys had just eaten 3 magic mushrooms a piece before they reviewed the game.

Everyone let me know one way or another if you want to stay in the tournament now that there will also be a league.  Thx.

I agree Lockdown.

Question, do we still want to do the tournament as well?  I for one would like too, however, I understand if that would be too much for some people.  Let me know.

Is it possible for two members of the league to live in the same house? If need be, we can just play our head-to-head games offline and then have the loser forfeit. If so, I'll be in also. My bastard brother already took the Panters, so I guess I'll take the Vikings. If someone else wants them though (as in, they've always been your favorite team), I don't mind taking some other team (preferably the Ravens or the Falcons).

You unfortunately must have separate Live! accounts, and the games must be played online.  Their system keeps up with it, not us so it isn't at all possible.  

Sorry

Last year, Ralph and I encountered the same problem in the PS2 league. What we ended up doing was playing off-line in our head-to-head matchup and then told the administrator of our league who won. Apparently, he had the ability to assign forfeits, so he just gave a forfeit to the one of us who lost and a win to the one who won.

If that is possible, I would be more than happy to do it.

Is it possible for two members of the league to live in the same house? If need be, we can just play our head-to-head games offline and then have the loser forfeit. If so, I'll be in also. My bastard brother already took the Panters, so I guess I'll take the Vikings. If someone else wants them though (as in, they've always been your favorite team), I don't mind taking some other team (preferably the Ravens or the Falcons).

You unfortunately must have separate Live! accounts, and the games must be played online.  Their system keeps up with it, not us so it isn't at all possible.  

Sorry

I should probably claim the Raiders for Lockdown.

Raiders for Lockdown (temporarily at least)

Now that we all know how freaking sweet the league feature in ESPN 2K5 is, I figured we should start one.

I would like the Titans of course, and Hetz wants the packers.

I think we would be mistaken if we didn't use the built in features this year.  I'm up for a league as i said, but if we don't do that we can at least do a tournament using the built in Tourney feature.  It just screams total slickness

I would also love to be in a league of committed people.  I want the Titans.  Should I start another thread?

Check out a live demo of the webp side of the Online Leagues for ESPN NFL 2K5

http://leagues.espnvideogames.com


Username: demoUser2k5
Password: ESPNnfl2K5demo


Checking it out now.

[9.4]

IGN is in and...9.4

Are you kidding me? This game rivals Madden in every way and surpasses it in feature set... and it's only twenty dollars.

Have fun while I'm gone!!

Sweet!  Thanks for the heads up.  What a good thing to see before leaving for vacation!

Eco, I notice the e-mail section hasn't been populated on the home page yet.  You can get my e-mail by going over that e-mail link on this forum.  You can probably do that for everyone (or most everyone).

I'm planning on updating the email section this weekend.  Thanks!!

Sorry Simon, of course I want you in too

I made the changes, you have the Raiders now lockdown.  

I'm about to explode while waiting on this game.

The interviews compliment one another nicely.  The IGN interview is understandably better

Two new interviews about BC

http://www.eurogamer.net/article.php?article_id=56012


http://xbox.ign.com/articles/530/530516p1.html

I really suggest that you all read the interview I linked to above.  It's always been one of my most anticipated games.  

 
 
Look how big the world is!
 

 

For what it's worth, I noticed no pauses while playing the Xbox version at E3.

Also, it didn't make it into my top 5 games of the show.

Still, this is exciting because I will more than likely purchase it regardless.

Now this is what I don't understand.  Why would you purchase it regardless?  What feature of the game makes it so that it is an instant purchase?  I'm not trying to be antagonistic here, but more understand why people are willing to suspend their normal rules for analyzing a game and it's merits based on its brand.

Because I'm in the mood for a horror FPS.  It really depends on when it comes out though.  There are so many games coming out between now and the end of the year.

Games that I know I will purchase regardless:

ESPN Football (real soon!)
Burnout 3
Brothers in Arms
Halo 2
KOTOR2
POP2
Jade Empire
Conker (more than likely)

Maybe Doom 2

I watched the trailer on the XBox Demo disc and wasn't that impressed with the console version.  There were some pauses which may just be for the trailer, but I wouldn't be surprised to see some kind of slow down in the actual game.   To it's benefit, the trailer did look pretty creepy, but I'm sure it'll be tons better on the PC.

For what it's worth, I noticed no pauses while playing the Xbox version at E3.

Also, it didn't make it into my top 5 games of the show.

Still, this is exciting because I will more than likely purchase it regardless.

I really do feel that McNair is the best QB in the league, or at least equat to Manning.

If only he didn't get hurt so often.  Still, I also think he is one of the toughest QBs to ever play the game

They should have made a Steve McNair Box...

I would buy it if it had Bart Simpson on the front though.

LOL!

That is great Lockdown.

By the way, I updated the Participants page, please email me or post here if I missed anyone or if anything is incorrect.  Also, if you're on the list please shoot me your email address so I can add it to the page if you don't mind.  That way everyone can communicate easier once the tournament starts.  

Off work now, bbl.

Can't freaking wait!

Box Art!

Official enough for you!!!!!!!!!!!!

Something like this:

PS2
Graphics 5.0
Sound 5.0
Control 4.5

XBOX
Graphics 4.5
Sound 5.0
Control 4.0


Madden:

PS2
Graphics 4.5
Sound 4.5
Control 5.0

XBOX
Graphics 4.5
Sound 4.5
Control 5.0



Gamecube
Graphics 4.5
Sound 4.5
Control 4.5

They're a joke.  GP is a flat out joke.  For one, the game looks and sounds better on Xbox period.

whatever though, not worth my time.

Gamepro apparently reviewed ESPN and Madden in their latest issue.

Holy crap!  The possibilities!

Thanks a lot for the heads up.

Lockdown:  Thanks so much!  That is a great help.  I just got back from the beach yesterday so I didn't have a chance to update anything yet.  I will get to it this week for sure.  Aug. 9th sounds good to me.  If anyone objects to Aug. 9th for any reason please let me know.

gamespot updated their date as well.

Looking pretty promising!:)

I wouldn't call it confirmed as of yet.  Only EBGames has upped the date, Gamestop is still at 8/10.

http://www.gamestop.com/product.asp?product%5Fid=210590

Gamestop changed their date too!!  

It looks pretty legit to me now !

http://www.ebgames.com/ebx/product/243255.asp

July 20th now!!!  I can't freaking wait!